BY My glory! I will make the infidels to taste, with the
hands of My power, retributions unknown of any one
except Me, and will waft over the faithful those musk-scented
breaths which I have nursed in the midmost heart
of My throne; and verily the knowledge of God embraceth
all things.

2

O concourse of light! By the righteousness of God, We
speak not according to selfish desire, nor hath a single letter
of this Book been revealed save by the leave of God, the
Sovereign Truth. Fear ye God and entertain no doubts
regarding His Cause, for verily, the Mystery of this Gate
is shrouded in the mystic utterances of His Writ and hath
been written beyond the impenetrable veil of concealment by
the hand of God, the Lord of the visible and the invisible.

3

Indeed God hath created everywhere around this Gate
oceans of divine elixir, tinged crimson with the essence of
existence and vitalized through the animating power of the
desired fruit; and for them God hath provided Arks of
ruby, tender, crimson-coloured, wherein none shall sail
but the people of Bahá, by the leave of God, the Most
Exalted; and verily He is the All-Glorious, the All-Wise.
Chapter LVII.